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Nazi Germany, brought to you by….

Hugo Boss – made uniforms for the Hitler Youth, stormtroopers and the SS. Used slave labour from France and Poland.

Bertelsmann – published training manuals for military officers and was the biggest producer of Nazi propaganda. Used Jewish slave labour. Currently owns Random House.

Ford Motor Company – made trucks and Jeeps for both sides, making profits both ways! It gets worse: In the 1920s Henry Ford wrote the “The International Jew”, an anti-Semitic book read by Hitler and other future Nazis when Germany was a broken country. Awards: Henry Ford received the Grand Cross of the German Eagle.

IBM – provided the machines Nazi Germany used to track everything, from oil supplies to Jews. IBM even helped them deal with railway traffic in Poland. Awards: Thomas J. Watson, IBM president, received an Order of the German Eagle medal.

ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP – then known as Standard Oil. It provided Nazis the tetraethyl lead gas they needed to get their planes off the ground!

Rockefeller Foundation – helped pay for studies in scientific racism in Germany that it knew would be used to demonize Jews and others.

Kodak – used slave labour in Germany.

Deutsche Bank – helped to get the money together to build Auschwitz.

Allianz – insured Auschwitz. They paid life insurance benefits of its Jewish customers directly to the Nazis!

Chase – one of the only two American banks opened in France under Nazi occupation (the other was J.P. Morgan). Chase received money from the Nazis knowing it had been stolen from Jews. It froze bank accounts of Jewish customers in Paris before the Nazis even asked them to.

Swiss National Bank – made a killing buying gold the Nazis took from European banks and concentration camp prisoners – while helping Nazi Germany pay for war.

Agfa, Bayer, BASF, Sanofi and Celanese – which contain the parts of what was once I.G. Farben. It used concentration camp prisoners as guinea pigs and slave labour. It made Zyklon B, the poison gas used to carry out the Holocaust. It helped Josef Mengele carry out his sick medical experiments.

Siemens – used slave labour to make gas chambers for the Holocaust. It still sells gas ovens.

Volkswagen – used 15,000 slaves, about 80% of its workforce. It even asked Himmler for slaves from Auschwitz. Made the Volkswagen Beetle and Jeep-like cars, even one that could swim.

BMW – used slave labour. Made aircraft engines.

Daimler – then called Daimler-Benz, made profits from slave labour. Helped to make planes, tanks and submarines.

ThyssenKrupp – then two separate steel companies, Thyssen and Krupp. Both used slave labour. Krupp was a main arms supplier to the Nazi war machine.

General Electric – Brings good things to life – while increasing investments and profits in Nazi Germany during the war.

Coca-Cola – Things go better with Coke – or, in this case, Fanta, which it created for Nazi Germany during the war.

ITT – an American company that made some of the best German fighter planes. It won millions in court for damage done to its German factory by Allied bombing!

And to think there are people who believe corporations should be just left to pretty much run the country without any government regulation. Yes, these kind of people are exactly the ones I want in charge of my healthcare and economy: war profiteers, slavers, supporters of genocide and scientific racism, real stand up folks.

After what YOU Americans, Britons and Frenchies did to Germany by inflating their money by over 1000%, those companies and that country FLEW out of depression by 1935. It was your BANKERS that started WWI that culminated in WWII. Remember it was the JEWS that Declared war on Germany:

What’s the morale here? Modern wars/killing/maiming would occur exponentially LESS if the WEST’s corporate-finance-military complex weren’t the Wolves in charge of the Hen House.

In 1935, a retired Marine Corp General, Smedley Butler published a small book called War Is a Racket.

In it he outlines, according to Wikipedia, these 3 main points:

“1. Making war unprofitable. Butler suggests that the owners of capital should be “conscripted” before other citizens are: “It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labour before the nation’s manhood can be conscripted. … Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our steel companies and our munitions makers and our ship-builders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted — to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get”

2. Acts of war to be decided by those who fight it. He also suggests a limited plebiscite to determine if the war is to be fought. Eligible to vote would be those who risk death on the front lines.

3. Limitation of militaries to self-defense. For the United States, Butler recommends that the navy be limited, by law, to within 200 miles of the coastline, and the army restricted to the territorial limits of the country, ensuring that war, if fought, can never be one of aggression.”

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Of course none of these sage ideas were ever permitted to be put in practice. Today, the manufacturers of unmanned aircraft drones are lobbying the political machine to permit the use of their product(s) on USA soil. These drones would be poised to watch and eliminate YOU troublesome Americans.

Most of this stuff has been trickling out into the American press since the 1990s now that Holocaust survivors can take companies to court for their behaviour during the Second World War.

Most of the companies listed above have apologized. Some, like Allianz, have even paid restitution.

Many, but not all, of the American companies listed here stopped after America declared war on Germany.

The list is not complete. It was hard cutting this post down to 500 words. I left out Unilever and Westinghouse, for example. I left out companies that have since gone out of business or which are unknown in America. I only looked into one American bank – most likely some of the other belong on this list too.

Much of this information is in the Wikipedia: Go to the company of your choice and see what it was up to during the Second World War or see what lawsuits have been brought against it. Not everything is known, but plenty is. The American government even knew some of this stuff back then but had to overlook it to get these companies to help the Allies.

I bet Blackman won’t read this…So there was no homosexuality or adultery in Germany before Jews put them on stage? Or does he mean it existed but was not considered theater material? if that’s the case, this is what we call hypocrisy where I come from.

Sadism was invented by the Marquis de Sade, a French pervert who, luckily, spent so much time in jail (The French police was not slow in locking him up in spite of his high aristocratic status) he did not have time to do too much damage. So he wrote, using his writing talent to put his sick mind to paper. Sick it is, but surely very helpful to psychiatrists etc.

The French and the Italians never needed any Jewish person’s help to put dodgy marital usage on stage. Well, that’s life folks. Ibsen (Scandinavian, not a Jew) did it too, but he is way less fun.
The English did not need Jewish encouragement to produce pantos with dodgy cross dressers called “Dames”. Cross dressing and sexual innuendos are a staple of British theater and light entertainment tradition, even though homosexuality was illegal (Hypocrisy again) until quite recently.

A Jewish producer, Brian Epstein, may his bliss in heaven last forever, helped the Beatles and other Liverpool bands who rarely included Jewish band members make it.

The dire situation created in Germany after 1918 was mostly the work of French Clemenceau, he insisted on the war damages because he had a grudge based on the 1870 War. Clemenceau? not a Jew. WW1 had been declared by a really stupid German emperor full of himself and his superiority. The little people ended up paying. Do we see a pattern here?

Just like we may not forget that Hitler did what he did because he had support and delegated (and yes, you are right, bringing jobs etc back, by deciding not to pay war damages anymore, between other things, that was great and explains why people followed so readily.) So just like Hitler did not work alone, neither do/did these decadent artists, as you call them: They were/are famous etc because they were/are appreciated by a wide range of people, way beyond Jews alone, else they would not have made it (sorry for putting Jewish artists in parallell with Hitler, but I am writing about a process).

Concentration camps were invented by the Brits for the Boers (white on white..and ethnically/racially even culturally, boers and Brits were very close) so I am quite clear that when there is a political grudge, any old argument will do.

For sure, I hate what the Jewish government are doing in Gaza, but if people cared to find out, they’d notice that neither do a lot of the Jews living in or outside Israel. But look at it this way: the Jews are collectively traumatised like those kids subjected to so much violence that they grow into violent adults. Besides, the Palestinian problem was created by the Brits & Co (none of the leaders of these countries were Jews then…) in 1948, so I am a bit annoyed with the French & Brits taking the moral highground now.

A survey done about 20 years ago found out that worldwide, the richest strata of society were male, white, protestants. Look at all the upper echelons of the banks who have done so much harm recently: I see a lot of people fitting this stereotype, but when someone is different…they get pilloried.

I have yet to meet a Jew who ridicules Christians. I am sure they exist because stupidity and extremism are found worldwide, across cultures and races. I lived with a Jewish family for quite a while. I remember a meal at the Synagogue. They read the names of family members killed in the holocaust, there were pictures etc. 500 000 dead Jews??? I do not think so. I computed the simple maths and the likelihood was anywhere between 3 and 6 millions, but it was not very scientific, it was based on a sample of people who had escaped Germany as well as some Eastern European countries, and some who had had relatives in these countries. I also listened to a similar ceremony for Gypsies, and it broke my heart, because in most cases, there were not even names. It went “woman, such a tribe”, “2 year old boy, such a tribe”.

Finally, Blackman, there were always poor Jews, but generally, the Jews have put a lot of emphasis on education, reading, writing and archives, so the names of the dead survive (how inconvenient). Even though a lot of the countries they were living in were putting obstacles in their paths, Jews sought to get an education. Now it is a fact: if you have skills and education, you often get a better job. Nobody stops all the other social groups from putting the same emphasis on skills and education, but governments should also create situations where everyone can get an education.

You know, I had to politely tell a jewish person that the very African Americans he looks down on were apart of the allied forces who freed the Nazi camps. No African American ever collaborated with the Gestapo. Sad huh. How quickly people forget. And the fact that there is even racism and classism within Jewish circles really surprised me.

Only really instructive in showing how big business and violent regimes are interconnected. The turnover in staff and shareholders is likely so great that any sort of blame is unjust, plus blaming people for the crimes of their forefathers is plain wrong.

We should take this post as a call to be more inquisitive about the profits in war time and repressive regimes throughout the world.

@Matari, Great comment. That shareholder conscription law would likely prevent most Western made wars.

OK Eco, for sure…I was being a bit humourous. Of course he did not invent it!! sadly it had been around since homo became sapiens sapiens. He wrote about it and his name was used to lexicalise the neurosis 🙂
And apart from that, I am glad the site kept Blackman’s video. It is always interesting to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth, instead of in reported form, which is by the way what he does. He alleges about others, and also seems to be quoting from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which is a fabricated document and never came from Jews.

@Jacque
it just goes to show that stupidity, racism, classism are cross-cultural, and not based on facts ( such as African Americans rescuing concentration camp inmates). I was so disappointed when I had a discussion with a Buddhist whose attitude the Dalai Lama would probably have struggled to understand, and as we know, Buddhists are not behaving all that well in Myanmar at the moment. But, silver lining: I have also met very conservative people who were warm, generous to all, neither racists nor classists.

The book ‘IBM and the Holocaust’ explains how IBM profited from Germany by selling them punch card computers to gather the location data on where Jews were living so Germans knew where to find them when the round ups began.

As for IBM not opening their archives, although they are good about maintaining records for intellectual property they generally don’t keep non current business archives for more than a decade. I presume Mr. Black found whatever data he could on IBM from US government sources.

I am familiar with Manufacturing Consent if anything I would say that the press seems to be supportive of Mr. Black’s book considering it won 2003s Outstanding Book Award: for General Nonfiction from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

Nazis were criminals, liars, and con men who even duped Jews and the Soviets into doing business with them.. (As you probably know, the Soviets lost 27 million people to the Nazis..)

Abagond, I love you man, and been in serious understudy of your esteem knowledge since you created this blog.

BUT, I think you asking the wrong question this time.

CAPITALISM is the common denominator of Evil. Yet, NO ONE wants to talk about this or the bogus ‘free-trade.’ Instead all we get is Conspiracy Theories, reptilian lies, illuminate, new world order, et.al.

Those companies are capitalist. They are suppose to Capitalize as best they can. It is personal, it is only MONEY. Now Agabond, look up the companies Benefitting in Iraq, Afganistan, Lybia, and who really stand to benefit in Egypt. And now that Syria is being SMASHED TO SMITHEREENS, more Capitalist are licking their chops at the new contracts to REBUILD this and other forthcoming plundered and Destroyed ancient civilizations.

At the ROOT of all poverty, wars, mayhem, passivity, negativity, death & destruction is an inherently BROKEN AND FLAWED economic model that is running the world.

This flawed model is now teaching young college student. There is NO alternative model. Yet the world shows us day in and day out that this model is only feasible for a Handsome Few to get Wildly rich.. Thus, the rest of us SHUT UP, work to pay off our DEBT and maintain our mortgages and count our few blessing that we can rub a few dimes together. Meanwhile, those in unfortunate countries outside of European and Western privileged DESPAIR.

So No, I do NOT blame those Multinationals for their past behavior. Not even the Jews blame them. Why? Because they KNOW, they can belittle hitla and Nazism all they want, but they BETTER NOT say a single negative syllable against Capitalism. Now LOOK at the world, see the poverty in the Congo – THE most resource rich Country on Planet Earth. Ah, but our Ipads, Smartphones, laptops et.al. are way more important that 5 million plus unfortunate souls obliterated outside of our gizmo’s and gadgets.

Professor Antony Sutton was a fellow at Hoover Institution an taught economics at California State University wrote a book on this over 25 years ago called The Best Enemy Money Can Buy. Its well researched and lists US companies who sold stuff to nazis during WW2 and Soviets throughout the cold war. This includes military equipment used to help kill Americans in Vietnam.

More recently Laureal sold sophisticated missile guidance systems to China that is being used to target the US. This allows Chinese warheads to be much more accurate so that they can do a lot more damage with fewer missiles.

Why is anyone even shocked or disappointed that companies sold stuff to the “nazis” or soviets or chicoms? Plenty of companies around the world are selling stuff to US military right now. What does that prove? That companies like to sell stuff to make money. Capitalism and the free market aren’t evil or immoral. Its AMORAL. Its morally neutral and doesn’t discriminate against good or bad or race or religion. Thst’s why businesses ousource to other countries and hire illegals here. Because the market dont discriminate. When it comes to business the only way to discriminate is if the customers discriminate with boycott or the government passes laws and rigorously enforces them. The idea that the market discriminates on basis of friend and foe or race or gender is a stupid conspiracy theory. Companies won’t even discriminate when it comes to selling nuclear warhead tech that’s being used to target them and their own families!

“The evil of Nazi Germany is easy for most Americans to see – it is taught at school and comes with few ideological blinders.”

Well that’s probably the understatement of the year. I have a hazy memory (so don’t quote me) of hearing that starting around 1990 there was something like 2 holocaust documentaries made per month! That’s not even counting WW2 movies and other media that may have strong holocaust themes or use the holocaust in some reference or another.

Its also fascinating how, even as echos of WW2 become more distant, we’ve seemingly become more obsessed with this conflict with every new generation.

You can easily see this in the comparisons between older and newer WW2 movies. The movies today are much more black and white, much more moralizing in nature than they ever were in the 70’s or 60’s.

Yet, centuries of African genocide and slavery at the hands multiple nations (and races) is merely swept under the rug or simply bottled and Americanized into the story of the Civil War. Its as if the 14th amendment ended any necessary extrapolation of what happened to an entire race of people.

When did Judaism become the judge of Nations? Its as if the holocaust is the moral palette for which all the moral questions history must be compared. If it doesn’t benefit the holocaust narrative and its position as “the unparalleled genocide,” then it simply doesn’t see the light of the day in America’s moral education.

Heck, just ask the Armenians.

As good old Voltaire once said: “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”

@anotheranon
The fact it is hard to criticise the Jews is not because they rule over us, but because we have a collective bad conscience about having allowed the holocaust to happen. It is a silly reaction because nobody is perfect, so there are things which could and should be criticised (as in what’s happening in Gaza). Healthy criticism would help the Jews recover from the collective trauma of WW2. Plus: this public ban results in a lot of underground and vicious criticism going on from people who do not check facts, and it is spreading, which is scary.There is something similar going on here in the UK: it is hard to criticise ethnic minorities officially because of the country’s bad colonial conscience and fear of exposing institutional racism. The result is that when girls in Rochdale Uk were groomed by men of Pakistani origins, the police refused to believe the girls. The whole scandal just blew open. There are bad people everywhere. To imagine that people forsake their human nature and everyone of them becomes an angel just because they belong to a (once or currently) oppressed minority is very dangerous.

the way they want it reported and reporting that makes sense based on continuing to enjoy certain kinds of access and reporting that does not kill the funding from their corporate patrons.

Yes I understand some information is downplayed or just not reported if it conflicts with the interests of powerful entities…. that said there are corporations that are direct competitors to IBM who are free spending with their advertising dollars who would be happy to see IBM disappear… Microsoft, Oracle, and Dell to name a few…. and FWIW at the moment all of three that I mentioned have Jewish CEOs.

The Key here is that these guy benefit from racism today as they did in nazi Germany. I have tried many times to say this: follow the money. These guys need racism as a tool, as a vehicle to create a world where they will make money. And it is not the only trick in their trade. Shock ecomony is the other.

Like the banksters in Morgan Stanely said in their confidental letter to their biggest customers (latter was leaked out later): democracy is bad for business because it allows anyone to vote but after the societies have adapted plutocracy people will be no longer able to disturb big business, whose interests are directly opposite of the interest of the people. This is how these guys are thinking even today.

They will work with any totalitarian dictator, opressive government, facists or nazis if they will make profit. Racism is one way to divide people, very important to keep the poor and less fortunate at odds against each other, for one simple reason: this way there will be no force to stop these guys. Racism makes people blind. It makes them forget that they are actually the majority. All this talk about racial groups, minorities, all this hate mongering and fighting between ethnic groups is good for these guys because it stops people seeing who is actually putting them down and stealig their money.

Like boss Big Bill Tweed, perhaps the most corrupted politician in the history of USA, once famously said: You can always hire another half of the poor to kill the other half. That is why racism is needed. It makes this possible.

@Sam
I agree with you: divide and conquer. Prevent the poor of this world from uniting. Has anyone asked why there are more nurses than bankers??? because nurses are more needed in this world than bankers.When there is a crisis in the world, they do not ship bankers to Somalia etc, they send nurses and doctors. The bankers go of themselves if they think there is something to gain. We’ve got our priorities wrong and allowed bankers to think they must be a special elite since they are not in huge numbers relatively.
Divide and conquer: Abagond has another post regarding the shooting of Jordan Travis. There is a lot of pain that can be felt through most postings. But…I was really dismayed to notice how some of the participants seem mostly keen to start arguments with others. We all wrote in there because we were so appalled and hurt by this latest instance of murder, we were all in essence of the same opinion, but some people had felt so much pain in their lives that they reacted with huge aggression. In effect, they had been poisoned by the racism around them and could only fight it with another form of racism, instead of creating a united front against the evil of racist murder.

So many wrong comments. But to touch on just two :
WWI had many causes, but the primary one was the British and French determination to not allow Germany to become a world rival of equal power. And the treatment of Germany after the war was to insure that it could never challenge again. This harsh treatment was the direct cause of WWII.
Secondly, one can hardly blame capitalism when a socialist government (Nazism) is in total control of all manufacturing.

@Hal Nelson
You are oh soo right about the causes of WW2, and what Israel are trying to do to the Palestiniansis what the allies did to Germany, and I am really sad to see that because I have a lot of sympathy for Israel, but it led to disaster in 1939 and it will again.
But…do not be naive. Anyone call call themselves what they want, it is called propaganda or marketing. The nazis calling themselves socialists were tapping on a West European idea of fairness. Look around and you will see there are other right wing dictatorships where the industry is in government hands.

A few observations:
The American troops who liberated Dachau were largely African Americans, Native Americans, and Japanese Americans. Some of the troops–I think it was Native Americans, led by Jack Bushyhead, a Cherokee, and Virgil Wyaco, a
Zuni, were so shocked by what they saw there–thousands of emaciated
corpses in various stages of decomposition lying all around–that they lined
up some of the guards and shot them out of hand. Wyaco later said in his
autobiography that he had no remorse over killing the Nazi guards-“they
had lived too long already”. General Patton who became physically ill over
what he saw at Dachau–he vomited if front of his men–refused to have any
of the men involved in the shootings court martialed–he thought they had
simply “snapped” from what they saw, as he almost did himself. Later, the
surviving guards and camp personell were put on trial and many of them were
hanged.